iPhone 13 Pro Disgusting Photos

I don’t deny that, I have enjoyed the camera in GOOD light conditions. Which is the condition where most of the reviewers have praised it. And indeed they are right here. The issue comes with medium to low light photos. Which has been documented by numerous on multiple forums in recent months, who also have done their assessments that can challenge the one you linked.

But these millions you talked about… they could be Apple loyalists, people trying to brag about how they afforded the latest iPhone in reviews. You just don’t know and that million number you picked out doesn’t mean they are the majority.

Apple doesn't release sales figures, but most experts feel they've sold at least thirty million iPhone 13s of all configurations to date.

Even if you assume a tiny percentage post here, we don't see anywhere near the number of complaints that have been made here about various other issues.

That doesn't diminish the issue at all if it bothers you, it's just many no longer want "accurate" in favor of a particular look and want a one button post to Instagram image without the need to apply any filters.

Second hand IPhone X/XS sales are suddenly jumping this year… I wonder why 🤔.

You put an awful lot of effort into saying other customers are happy. It doesn’t really add to this discussion in any quality nor address unhappy customer’s concern.

mathéo256 wrote:

Very disappointed with Apple, it's unacceptable, even my iPhone 7 has a better color rendering but if we listen to you it's just us

I never said it was "just you," though I prefer the second photo you posted to the first.

Follow the links I posted above to complain to Apple, as neither I nor anyone else here can do anything about this.

We're all just fellow Apple users here on this forum.

Ok you prefer the second photo except that the colors are wrong: the light is dimmed in my room and not an LED, the orange is light and not dark, the rendering is overall bland compared to reality

Same issue, That all these people: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/really-bad-photos-with-iphone-13-pro-max-merged.2315188/

I am so happy to hear i am not the only one! I browsed everywhere to see if some article was talking about this, but nothing. Just positive feedbacks.

I hate terribly iphone 13 pro pictures, i see distortion, too much editing (skin turns to orange and they are over exposed - if you try to re-editing it just get worst) and overall the phone is too heavy. I preferred much more my X version and all previous iphone i had.

Do you think i can still change the phone i bought in september and switch to a previous version? Such a pity. I wonder still how is possible that iphone did such a mistake.

I hope this will be fixed next year.

Since you purchased your phone in September, you have long since passed your 14 day return date.

Your best option is to sell your phone as used and purchase something else.

While there may be future updates surrounding photo processing, nothing will change its weight.

the above photographs are not cropped or altered in any way. The best I could get out of the iPhone 13 Pro was this image.

It struggled to focus, unlike the iPhone 11 pro which focused exactly where I tapped on the screen.

I'm not sure what you're doing to get that cartridge photo with the 13 Pro Max, are you trying to use the wide lens to take a macro photo rather than allow it to switch to the ultra wide?

The wide lens on the 13 Pro Max can't focus much closer than 10mm due in part to the iPhone 13 Pro's larger sensor; the ultra wide lens can focus much closer.

Each lens doesn't have a different color temperature per se, but rather the phone readjusts white balance depending upon the overall scene each lens sees.

the wide lens c/up option does not work for this shot, both are long lenses zoomed in. As close as possible. I can not get the wide lens close enough to the needle to get this shot. this shows the difference in long lens zoomed in quality.

You misunderstand.

The wide lens on the 13 Pro Max cannot focus closer than about 10mm, so macro shots are instead taken using the ultra wide lens, which can focus much closer.

Zooming in is a digital zoom which will always be of poorer quality has the camera tries to produce a smooth image from fewer pixels.

it worked just fine on the iPhone 11 Pro, you can see the results from the 13 pro, The macro on iPhone 13 pro works OK for things about the size of a flower or a cats hed, but not things the size of a pinhead, that is where the 11 pro is much better. Phyically I can not get the phone close enough to the stylus tip to do a macro shot. where I could get a close-up shot with the 11 pro.

The internet is full of iPhone 13 pro image complaints, you can try and justify the poor image quality but I am not having it.

I actually have a Hasseblad X1D II medium format digital (https://www.hasselblad.com/x-system/x1d/) camera so I am aware of how a larger sensor affects images, (shallower depth of field and a longer focal length for the same len). this should not stop me from taking a sharp close-up photo of a tiny object if I move back a little more from the object I am photographing. still no answer as to why I (and many others on multiple forums) are complaining about the user experience and quality of iPhone 13 pro photographs.

If you have a Hasselblad you know well what “minimum focus distance” is for a camera and lens combination.

Do you complain to Zeiss or Hasselblad that you can’t focus at a distance under what the minimum focus distance is?

Of course not, and Apple is the same.

You’re complaining the phone can’t do something it was never specified, designed or promised to do, which is why macro mode with the Ultra Wide lens exists.

In the end, it does a great job in most circumstances and is not perfect in all.

If it’s that important to you that it do that precise task in that precise way, sell your iPhone 13 Pro, keep your iPhone 11 Pro and pocket the proceeds.

For the photos I take, the 13 Pro Max can largely replace my DSLR and by comparison the 11 Pro is a point-and-shoot.

Of course it can’t in all situations, which is why high-end cameras still exist.

Just so you know, I am a huge fan of all things Apple and have loved and been an advocate for your products, I have worked on numerous NDA TV commercials for the company and it gives me no joy to find myself in this position. The iPhone 13 pro is amazing in every other respect. The camera technology or processing software is not good. I hope it's a software fix further on down the road where we can turn on or off the aggressive oil painting style filter. As you say, most will not notice it. But those of us with a critical eye and the ability to compare images in Lightroom or Photoshop to previous iPhone versions can see the quality decrease in the iPhone 13 pro over the iPhone 11 Pro. You can sing the corporate tune all you like but the iPhone 13 pro camera technology gives a worse result than the iPhone 11 Pro. Fact.